Day Forty-Seven
It’s been another great day on the beach. I woke up this morning at 4:45am and went for a two mile walk. Fortunately, my feet only bothered me a very small amount. I then did my push up routine; today I did a total of 80 (15,15,12,12, & 26). I am anxious and a little nervous because tomorrow is the day I do an exhaustion test. My goal is to do 40 consecutive push ups, but I am not sure I can pull it off. Tonight my wife and I also went for a slower paced three mile walk. Oh, one more thing, this morning I jumped rope for a minute. Yeah, yeah, I know, a whole minute! I am toying with adding this to my routine or substituting it for some of my walking. It is certainly harder than it looks, but I didn’t feel any pressure on my knees. It also burns a lot more calories than walking. I will probably play around with it a little more this weekend and decide how to add it to my routine.
My South Beach Diet meal journal for the day is as follows:
- Breakfast – Two small turkey sausage, one serving of steel cut oats (1/4 cup precooked) made with 3/4 cup of ff milk, cinnamon, and Splenda, one container of ff, plain yogurt mixed with cinnamon and Splenda, and two peppers, one green bell and one small red pepper that was hotter than fire. I experimented with making the oats in the microwave today and found that it took about eight minutes on 40% power, but they weren’t quite as done as I normally cook them. I may experiment more with this.
- Mid-morning snack – One apple with two tablespoons of natural peanut butter.
- Lunch – A large helping of black-eyed peas, 1/2 cup of green peas, and two chicken breasts.
- Mid-afternoon snack – nothing
- Supper – Two pork tenderloin chops, a very large helping of fabulous cauliflower salad (I had to eat the rest before it ruined
), and a small serving of black-eyed peas.
I drank plenty of water today, although I am not sure how much. I also checked my blood pressure this morning and it was 127/79 and again this evening when it was 125/78.
I went by a local Kroger store to get some more steel cut oats this evening and another box of Uncle Sam cereal. While I was there I ran across Ezekial 4:9 cereal. This looks really South Beach Diet friendly, so I bought a box to try. I’ll let you know what I think after tomorrow.
Great idea with the rope jumping Steve. Whenever you see boxers jumping rope they are drenched in sweat. Let us know how that goes please. I may try and do the same a few more lbs from now. good luck with the exhaustion test. I am truly envious about the push up routine you have undertaken, you seem to be really committed to it. I know I could not commit to such a program.
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I’ll keep you posted on the rope jumping. I’ll tell you that right now it is kicking my tail! I have to figure out a program to follow for it like I am doing for the push ups. By the way, I did 46 push ups in the exhaustion test. That means next week will be the top tier, in other words, it will be a tough week!
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